Progressivism in America…what does it really mean?

No, I am not referring to the insurance company.  The term progressive has many definitions.  One definition states progressive is: happening or developing gradually over time.  In general, progress can be a good thing.  Progress in technology and modern medicine have improved by ‘progress’ within those particular fields.  But when we use the term ‘progressive’ in America, what does it really mean?

In America, progressive today means expanding the nanny state, spending into oblivion, and never saying no to anything (except ‘no’ to fiscal responsibility).  American progressivism is a disease.  “The ends justify the means” is the progressive way.  This is not a ‘left’ or a ‘right’ thing...there are progressives in both the Democratic AND Republican parties.  America is progressing all right...straight for a cliff and right towards its death.  I can’t quite decide though if it would be good or bad for America to go over the cliff?  Is our country like a drug addict who needs to hit rock bottom before he turns his life around?  Does America need to hit rock bottom before we wake up and realize that being ‘progressive’ really isn’t such a good thing?  

I hope not.  But I do know that the American ‘progressive movement’ is a road headed straight for destruction.  Helping those “less fortune”, giving “opportunities” to everyone, and “its for the children” are all just covers for the progressives.  Their real mission is about power and control.  Our dire state of the union is no accident, it is by design.  The elitist-progressives are smart and strategic; and their greatest weapon is they have no conscience or logic.  

The progressives have been instrumental in increasing welfare benefits since its inception.  America, however, is becoming an unaffordable welfare state, leading to nothing but absolute destruction of the economy.  Cloward and Piven wrote about this in their article titled ‘The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty’ published in a 1966 issue of The Nation.  In the article, the authors explain how overloading the welfare state will cause a collapse of the economic system from the inside...a recipe for assured destruction.  The article reads like a playbook and the progressives know it cover to cover.  Think I am talking crazy?  Do your own research.  It is there in black & white.  The authors’ reason for economic collapse is for total take over and creation of a guaranteed equal income for everyone, an ideology derived from communism.  We can look at historical recordings and other writings from early progressives for the blueprint.  America today spends $131.9 Billion on welfare each year and this does NOT include food stamps or unemployment!  Our government says this still isn’t enough, they want more money and more programs for welfare!  They say they are fighting for equality; but their definition of equality in America is different that what America’s founders and Martin Luther King, Jr were talking about.

The progressive definition of equality is equal outcomes, not equal opportunities; again an ideology based in communism or collectivism.  America was founded on the principle that ‘All men are created equal’.  Our founding fathers believed in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which provides equal opportunities, but doesn’t guarantee equal outcomes.  Our government tells us differently; they are trying very hard to change the facts.  Traditionally, when someone was struggling, their friends, their neighbors, and their church, would rally around them and help them get back on their feet.  Now for some reason the government and our society thinks its the government’s job to help them.  We have lost our sense of community and charity.  Our society’s selfishness is to blame. 

Like a drug addict though, our society won’t change unless we want to change, unless we realize our lifestyle is out of control, unsustainable, and is giving us a false sense of true happiness and satisfaction.  We may have to hit complete rock bottom as a society in order for us to truly understand what some people have been trying to tell us for years.  It may take rock bottom for us to truly understand what full government control really looks like and feels like.  America is addicted all right, addicted to self-pleasure and entitlements at the cost of freedom.  Its time to wake up, educate ourselves and kick American “progressivism” out the door!